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Pam Grady interview
DATE: 2002/01/10
URL: Reel.com
Wolf Man
Martial arts star Mark Dacascos kicks up his heels over his new French action-horror feature.
By Pam Grady(Reel.com)
Like Lana Turner, who, legend has it, was discovered sipping a soda at Schwab's Drugstore, Mark Dacascos enjoys one of those only-in-movieland stories. Already a champion martial artist (and the son of Black Belt Hall of Fame member Al Dacascos), the 20-year-old Dacascos was discovered walking down a street in San Francisco in 1984 and cast in Wayne Wang's Dim Sum. By the 1990s, Dacascos was combining acting with his martial-arts talents in films such as American Samurai, Double Dragon, Sanctuary, Boogie Boy, and on TV as the star of the series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven.
In the new French horror film Brotherhood of the Wolf, Dacascos takes on the role of Mani, the Mohawk Iroquois blood-brother to King Louis XV's court naturalist Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan). As the two work to uncover the mystery surrounding the murderous Beast of Gevaudan, Mani emerges as both a fierce fighter who uses his talent in defense of the weak and the spiritual center of the film with a psychic bond to nature.
The personable Dacascos recently returned to San Francisco to promote the film and talk things lupine. Reel caught up with him at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where he regaled us with stories of Brotherhood's many challenges, talked about the similarities between himself and Mani, and revealed why the classic romance Roman Holiday is among this action star's favorite movies.
Pam Grady interview
DATE: 2002/01/10
URL: Reel.com
Wolf Man
Martial arts star Mark Dacascos kicks up his heels over his new French action-horror feature.
By Pam Grady(Reel.com)
Like Lana Turner, who, legend has it, was discovered sipping a soda at Schwab's Drugstore, Mark Dacascos enjoys one of those only-in-movieland stories. Already a champion martial artist (and the son of Black Belt Hall of Fame member Al Dacascos), the 20-year-old Dacascos was discovered walking down a street in San Francisco in 1984 and cast in Wayne Wang's Dim Sum. By the 1990s, Dacascos was combining acting with his martial-arts talents in films such as American Samurai, Double Dragon, Sanctuary, Boogie Boy, and on TV as the star of the series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. In the new French horror film Brotherhood of the Wolf, Dacascos takes on the role of Mani, the Mohawk Iroquois blood-brother to King Louis XV's court naturalist Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan). As the two work to uncover the mystery surrounding the murderous Beast of Gevaudan, Mani emerges as both a fierce fighter who uses his talent in defense of the weak and the spiritual center of the film with a psychic bond to nature.
The personable Dacascos recently returned to San Francisco to promote the film and talk things lupine. Reel caught up with him at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where he regaled us with stories of Brotherhood's many challenges, talked about the similarities between himself and Mani, and revealed why the classic romance Roman Holiday is among this action star's favorite movies.
